HARVARD MK 1

The Harvard MK 1 (NA-49) was basically a BC-1 outfitted with British specified equipment. It had the BC-1 fabric covered fuselage, retractable undercarriage, rounded wing tips and the rounded rudder. It was powered , however by a British specified 600 HP Pratt & Whitney R-1340 -S3H1 in place of the Pratt & Whitney R-1340-47 installed in the BC-1. Items of British specified equipment installed included a circular control column, British Instruments and radios, a provision for a Vickers single .303 machine gun mounted in the right wing. Photographs supplied by Martin Pengelly